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TIL A Millionaire in Finland gets a $58,000 Speeding Ticket for doing 64 in a 50 MPH zone.

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yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
e0lkb TIL famous mathematician Paul Erdos was once challenged to quit taking amphetamines for one month by a concerned friend. He succeeded, but complained “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict, but I didn’t get any work done…you’ve set mathematics back a month”.
grwND TIL that personal ovens were generally outlawed in medieval France, and commoners were compelled to use communal ovens, for a fee, to bake things like bread.
oBZRW TIL That, on request of the family of Sir Winston Churchill, there is always a marmalade cat called Jock in residence at Chartwell house. Currently it is Jock VI.
Z8mOY TIL of the Duga Radar Array, a Soviet over-the-horizon radar hidden in the forests of Chernobyl that was at the heart of mind control conspiracy theories